From: Chris Pepper This article covers the "standard" way of protecting parts
of your web site that most of you are going to use. The directives discussed in this article will need to go
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@
kept. This should not be terribly difficult, and I'll try to
make this clear when we come to that point. Here's the basics of password protecting a directory on your
server.Authentication
+ Authentication
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
The
+
The
prerequisites
Getting it working
+ Getting it working
require directive.
The directives above only let one person (specifically
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
files, and remember to reference th right one in the
AuthUserFile directive.
Because of the way that Basic authentication is specified, @@ -308,8 +308,8 @@ get above a few hundred entries, and may wish to consider a different authentication method at that time.
-Authentication by username and password is only part of the @@ -319,10 +319,9 @@
The allow and deny directives let
you allow and deny access based on the host name, or host
- address, of the machine requesting a document. The directive
- goes hand-in-hand with these is the order
- directive, which tells Apache in which order to apply the
- filters.
order directive goes hand-in-hand with these two,
+ and tells Apache in which order to apply the filters.
The usage of these directives is:
@@ -331,7 +330,8 @@
where address is an IP address (or a partial IP
address) or a fully qualified domain name (or a partial domain
- name).
+ name); you may provide multiple addresses or domain names, if
+ desired.
For example, if you have someone spamming your message
board, and you want to keep them out, you could do the
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@
Visitors coming from that address will not be able to see - the content behind this directive. If, instead, you have a + the content covered by this directive. If, instead, you have a machine name, rather than an IP address, you can use that.
deny from host.example.com
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
you can specify just part of an address or domain name:
deny from 192.101.205
- deny from cyberthugs.com
+ deny from cyberthugs.com moreidiots.com
deny from ke
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@
addition to letting everyone in. What you want is to let
only those folks in.
- More
+ More
information
You should also read the documentation for
- Authentication
+ Authentication
- Introduction
- - The prerequisites
+ - The prerequisites
- - Getting it working
+ - Getting it working
- - Letting more
+
- Letting more
than one person in
- - Possible problems
+ - Possible problems
- - What other neat
+
- What other neat
stuff can I do?
- - More information
+ - More information
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
This article covers the "standard" way of protecting parts
of your web site that most of you are going to use.
- The
+ The
prerequisites
The directives discussed in this article will need to go
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@
kept. This should not be terribly difficult, and I'll try to
make this clear when we come to that point.
- Getting it working
+ Getting it working
Here's the basics of password protecting a directory on your
server.
@@ -221,8 +221,8 @@
server. In the next section, we discuss various ways to use the
require directive.
- Letting more than one
+ Letting more than one
person in
The directives above only let one person (specifically
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@
files, and remember to reference th right one in the
AuthUserFile directive.
- Possible
+ Possible
problems
Because of the way that Basic authentication is specified,
@@ -308,8 +308,8 @@
get above a few hundred entries, and may wish to consider a
different authentication method at that time.
- What other neat stuff can
+ What other neat stuff can
I do?
Authentication by username and password is only part of the
@@ -319,10 +319,9 @@
The allow and deny directives let
you allow and deny access based on the host name, or host
- address, of the machine requesting a document. The directive
- goes hand-in-hand with these is the order
- directive, which tells Apache in which order to apply the
- filters.
+ address, of the machine requesting a document. The
+ order directive goes hand-in-hand with these two,
+ and tells Apache in which order to apply the filters.
The usage of these directives is:
@@ -331,7 +330,8 @@
where address is an IP address (or a partial IP
address) or a fully qualified domain name (or a partial domain
- name).
+ name); you may provide multiple addresses or domain names, if
+ desired.
For example, if you have someone spamming your message
board, and you want to keep them out, you could do the
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@
Visitors coming from that address will not be able to see
- the content behind this directive. If, instead, you have a
+ the content covered by this directive. If, instead, you have a
machine name, rather than an IP address, you can use that.
deny from host.example.com
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
you can specify just part of an address or domain name:
deny from 192.101.205
- deny from cyberthugs.com
+ deny from cyberthugs.com moreidiots.com
deny from ke
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@
addition to letting everyone in. What you want is to let
only those folks in.
- More
+ More
information